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Art Basel Miami Beach 2024
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Miami exhibition explores Harlem Renaissance artist William H. Johnson’s final series of paintings

Artist’s portraits of people like Harriet Tubman and Mahatma Gandhi are a tribute to the many figures who battled discrimination

Veronica Pesantes
6 December 2024
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In Boxers (1945-46), Johnson celebrated the fighters Jack Johnson, the first African American to win the world heavyweight boxing title, and Joe Louis, the “Brown Bomber” who famously defeated a German boxer in 1938 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation